Safety ship and car heating stove



UNITED STATES GEORGE F. FOOTE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

SAFETY SHIP AND CAR HEATING STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. dia, dated November 29, 1864 To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, GEORGE F. FooTE, of the city of Oincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, in the Sta-te of Ohio, have invented a new and useful improvement on the common stove, making it a safety-stove for railwaycars and marine vessels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX act description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure I is a perspective view. Figs. II and III are longitudinal elevations of the stove for burning wood; while Fig. IV is a perspective view, and Fig. Vis a longitudinal elevation, of a stove for burning coal; and Fig. VI is a perspective view of the catch and handle, and Fig. VII a sectional view of the catch and jainb against which the door shuts.

It is not infrequent that the persons and lives of passengers are endangered and even sacriiced upon cars or vessels by the scatteri 1g oftire from the stoves in common use in a collision or accident. In the use of my iinproved stove it is designed to prevent this danger by construct-ing the external portion ot' the stove wholly of wrought-iron, with the ordinary openin g, sufficiently guarded to preveilt the escape of ignited fuel.

The stove for burning wood should be made ofheavy sheet-iron, (about No.14,) well riveted, cylindrical or octaginal in form, about two feet and a half long by eighteen inches in diameter, the legs made ofthe same, six to eight inches long, riveted to the body of the stove,

the lower end bent at right angles to form a foot, with a hole to receive a bolt for fastening the whole strongly to the floor.

A, Figs. I and II, is a horizontal plate, of heavy sheet-iron or cast-iron placed transversely about four inches from the top, reachin g from the front to within about six or eight inches ofthe back end of the stove, rmly fastened to the end and sides. This plate preyents the escape of burning coals or brands through the opening for the smoke-funnel should the stove be inverted or broken from its fastenings. In case it is desirable to have the smoke escape at the back end of the stove, a grate or perforated plate may be placed across the opening B, Fig. III.

The stove burning coal, Figs. IV and V, is also made of heavy sheet-iron in the cylindrical form, with a Ere-box and grate, C and D, immovably fixed, with an ash-pan at E and door at F. Placed below or in front of the opening, for the passage of smoke, is a grate or perforated plate, L, with openings sufficiently large for the egress of smoke and sinallenough to prevent the escape of burning coals.

The door F, Figs. I, IV, and V, made of heavy sheet-iron, should be well stiffened by riveting on its edges straps of hoop-iron, and the jambs against which it shuts should be stift'ened with the same. This door is fastened, when shut, by a catch, I, Figs. VI and VII. This catch should be about threefonrths of a circle, with apoint, G, which passes through the notch in thejamb, Fig. VII, so that when turned by the handle H it is fastened in every position except when the point is again brought opposite this notch. The openings K, t0 admit air for combustion, may be two inches long by three-eighths ofan inch wide,three or four in number, and covered by an ordinary slide-damper, or they may be of the ordinary size, with a perforated plate or grate behind, securely fastened to the inside of the stove, with holes or interstices too small to permit the escape of ignited fuel.

I ain well aware that stoves in this general form have been made of sheet-iron with castiron ends and cast doors, and that cast-iron stoves with what is called a seventh plate7 have been in common use, and I make no claim to such invention 5 but What I do claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A sa't'ety car and ship heating stove made of wrought or sheet iron, arranged with a horizontal plate, A, or a perforated plate or grating, B, when the above is combined with the draft-openings K, substantiaily as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a stove constructed and arranged as specified in the foregoing clause, the safety door-fastening F, as described.

GEO. F. FOOTE.

Witnesses FRANK H. Foo'rE, WM. F. BEACH. 

